INFSO-RI Enabling Grids for E-sciencE NEC 2005 Varna, Bulgaria The EGEE Project from South East European Perspective Emanouil Atanassov, Ivan Dimov, Todor Gurov, and Aneta Karaivanova Institute for Parallel Processing - BAS

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI NEC 2005 Varna Bulgaria 2 Overview South East Europe Federation in EGEE Organization of operations Resources in SEE Federation Applications Challenges

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI NEC 2005 Varna Bulgaria 3 EGEE Partner Federations All work in EGEE will be carried out by the 70 partners grouped in 12 federations.

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI NEC 2005 Varna Bulgaria 4 Structure of EGEE operations Operations Management Centre (OMC): –At CERN – coordination etc Core Infrastructure Centres (CIC) –Manage daily grid operations – oversight, troubleshooting –Run essential infrastructure services –Provide 2 nd level support to ROCs Regional Operations Centres (ROC) –Act as front-line support for user and operations issues –Provide local knowledge and adaptations –One in each region User Support Centre (GGUS)

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI NEC 2005 Varna Bulgaria 5 Participants from SEE federation

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI NEC 2005 Varna Bulgaria 6 Operations monitoring maps In EGEE/LCG: > 150 sites, 34 countries > 15,000 cpu ~5 PB storage In EGEE/LCG: > 150 sites, 34 countries > 15,000 cpu ~5 PB storage

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI NEC 2005 Varna Bulgaria 7 Example grid site - BG01-IPP UI Terminals enter Grid enter Grid enter Grid enter Grid UI WN RB/II CE SE BDII

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI NEC 2005 Varna Bulgaria 8 SEE ROC activities Introduce new RCs Pro-active monitoring of grid services at RC React and solve problems, reported by users or CIC Validate new middleware releases Provide feedback to middleware developers through the pre-production service Interfaces: Savannah at CERN, GGUS at FZK Negotiate and deploy new VOs at RC level

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI NEC 2005 Varna Bulgaria 9 SEE Regional Operations Centre – distributed organizational structure Central ROC in Greece Security Contact in Bulgaria Helpdesk developed by Romania Core services run at Cyprus, backup core services in Greece and Bulgaria (BDII, RB) Local customised monitoring from Greece Regional SEE VO deployed SEE VO services available - VOMS, myproxy, LFC, etc. Localized web sites at each country Stable SEE-GRID sites are also incorporated

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI NEC 2005 Varna Bulgaria 10 SEE sites

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI NEC 2005 Varna Bulgaria 11 Selection of Monitoring tools GIIS MonitorGIIS Monitor graphs Sites Functional Tests GOC Data Base Scheduled Downtimes Live Job Monitor GridIce – VO viewGridIce – fabric viewCertificate Lifetime Monitor Note: Those thumbnails are links and are clickable.

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI NEC 2005 Varna Bulgaria 12 User support New experimental users New production users/apps EGAAP Join existing VO with your application Qualify as new VO Join SEE-VO Experienced production users Join existing VO as a member Play on GILDA: RO, GR Help with app development Help with EGAAP application Our ROC core services User support per country

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI NEC 2005 Varna Bulgaria 13 BG EGEE production infrastructure BG01-IPPBG02_IMBG-INRNEBG04-ACAD alice atlas biomed cms magic dteam esr85000 lhcb Sites – 4 (3 EGEE, 1 SEE-GRID) CPUs – 45 VOs supported – HEP, BioMed, ESR, magic, regional The table shows the total summed CPU time

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI NEC 2005 Varna Bulgaria 14 VOs supported at the first BG EGEE site – BG01-IPP BG01-IPP was the first SEE site to support: –biomed VO – since Nov 2004 –ESR – since Jan 2005 –magic – since Mar High Energy Physics support - Alice, Atlas, LHCb, CMS software deployed at the site. –LHCb production jobs since October –CMS and Atlas jobs running at this moment:

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI NEC 2005 Varna Bulgaria 15 VOs supported at the first BG EGEE site – BG01-IPP Installed VO software:

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI NEC 2005 Varna Bulgaria 16 BG application in ESR VO – air pollution prediction Under development by Tzvetan Ostromsky from IPP Transition from HPC to Grid computing. Use of MPI

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI NEC 2005 Varna Bulgaria 17 Challenges before SEE ROC Security Service Challenges Level 1 – passed by me as BG01-IPP security contact in 2 hours. I participate in Operational Security Coordination Group. Biomedical Data Challenge – passed succesfully in July and August. 15 Institutes donated resources for the challenge, among them Institute for Parallel Processing and Institute of Mechanics ( egee.org/news/fullstory.php?news_id=53) egee.org/news/fullstory.php?news_id=53 Increase number of users and available resources

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI NEC 2005 Varna Bulgaria 18 SEE-GRID Contractors GRNET (Co-ord.) Greece CERN Switzerland SZTAKI Hungary IPP-BAS Bulgaria ICI Romania TUBITAK Turkey INIMA Albania BIHARNET Bosnia- Herzegovina UKIM FYROM UOB Serbia- Montenegro RBI Croatia

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI NEC 2005 Varna Bulgaria 19 SEE-GRID current snapshot LCG-2 clusters installed in all sites. – 9 SEE-GRID sites – ( with >80 CPUs) in participating countries in the first project year; Regional SEEGRID VO is supported with 3 Grid apps: –Volumetric Image Visualization Environment (VIVE); – Search Engine for South Eastern Europe (SE4SEE); –Stochastic ALgorithms for Ultra-fast Transport in sEmiconductors (SALUTE). EGEE VOs supported - –HEP, biomed. Significant human capital & tech expertise –emphasis on software development –extend the objective to build additional Grid applications of regional interest

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI NEC 2005 Varna Bulgaria 20 BgGrid Consortium Members  Founders: Institute for Parallel Processing (former CLPP-BAS) and Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy (INRNE- BAS) – (Agreement signed in September 2002)  Joined by (Agreements signed in January 2004):  Institute of Mathematics and Informatics (IMI), Bulg. Academy of Sciences  Institute of Mechanics (IM), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences  Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics (FMI), Plovdiv University  Computer Science Department (CSD), American University in Bulgaria (AUBG)  Department of Information Technologies at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics (DIT-FMI), Sofia University.  Institute of Electrochemistry and Energy Systems (IEES), BAS. Main purpose  Sharing of resources and expertise in Grid  Development of Grid-enabled algorithms

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI NEC 2005 Varna Bulgaria 21 Presentations and workshops  Invited presentations at national and international conferences  Workshop at Institute of Mechanics, Nov 2004  International Conference Sofia University, Feb 2005  Workshop at AUBG, Mar 2005  MIPRO, Opatija, Croatia, May 2005  LSSC Sozopol June 2005  EGEE/SEE-GRID workshop Borovetz, Oct 2004  NA2 meeting in Sofia, June 2005  Newspaper and radio interviews

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI NEC 2005 Varna Bulgaria 22 During the first year of EGEE Two new members of BgGRID Consortium Institute of Astronomy (IA), BAS Space Research Institute (SRI), BAS Specific agreements with two Institutions to install Grid sites and support regional and EGEE applications Institute of Mechanics – BG02-IM – production site running since January 2005, support for seegrid VO. Faculty of Physics and Faculty of Mathematics, Sofia University – agreement and work in progress. Grid sites Four EGEE production sites One EGEE Grid site under construction Grid applications – SALUTE (Stochastic ALgorithms for Ultra-fast Transport in sEmiconductors) in SEE-GRID and EnvMod in ESR.

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI NEC 2005 Varna Bulgaria 23 Contact information Contact persons: Emanouil Atanassov, EGEE SA1 representative for Bulgaria Aneta Karaivanova, NA2 Activity Leader, Todor Gurov, Alternate BG EGEE representative Ivan Dimov, EGEE Project manager for BG